IF THE PROPERTY IS LOCATED IN A CLOSED TOWN Dear editors, my calendar length of service is 15 years, preferential-23, I have a service apartment in a separate military town, I do not have other residential premises, including armored ones, on the territory of Russia and other CIS countries, I do not need to improve my living conditions. Can I be dismissed from the Armed Forces for organizing events without providing living space? Can they remove the armor from my apartment without my desire, so that I can be considered secure housing? Captain A. SELIVERSTOV. Afrikind settlement, Murmansk region According to clause 1 of Article 23 of the Federal Law of the Russian Federation "On the Status of Military Personnel", military personnel whose total duration of military service is 10 years or more, who need to improve their housing conditions in accordance with the norms established by federal laws and other regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation, cannot be dismissed from military service without their consent after they reach the maximum age of stay during military service, for health reasons, or in connection with organizational and regular activities without providing them with residential premises at their chosen place of residence after their dismissal. Military personnel, as well as citizens dismissed from military service, and their family members have the right to receive free ownership of the residential premises they occupy in accordance with federal laws and other regulatory legal acts, with the exception of official residential premises and residential premises in closed military camps. Until you receive the living space allocated by local governments, you have the right to live in official residential premises. But you don't have the right to sell the apartment as long as it is owned by the Ministry of Defense. The change in the status of the office living space on your part can be confirmed by a court decision. THE ADMINISTRATION CAN HELP I ... Read more